On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 12:42 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> Gets the current user's home directory as defined in the password
> database.
>
> Note that in contrast to traditional UNIX tools, this function
> prefers passwd entries over the HOME environment variable.
The question to answer is simple: why does GLib do what it does now?
"git annotate" says the comment dates from:
commit 5a866843df0d8dc5e5b81fcf2a8a572b6db31521
Author: Matthias Clasen <mcla...@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Feb 2 06:07:14 2005 +0000
Move doc comments inline.
Which is just moving around the original comment, so let's dig into
that:
$ git annotate 5a866843df0d8dc5e5b81fcf2a8a572b6db31521^ --
docs/reference/glib/tmpl/misc_utils.sgml
Gives us:
commit ea01de53feb47d592ba6401051ac85375e9a45a9
Author: Matthias Clasen <matthi...@src.gnome.org>
Date: Thu Sep 9 14:06:20 2004 +0000
Clarify the relation of g_get_home_dir() and $HOME.
So...yeah, not very enlightening =/ This kind of thing is a
prime example of why I am constantly asking people to rewrite commit
messages to say *WHY*, not what.
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